hen comments on Explanations for Less Wrong articles that you didn't understand - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 31 March 2014 11:19AM

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Comment author: Slider 02 April 2014 11:47:38PM 0 points [-]

If you are anomalous you would have to be anomalous in some way and then that way would be a law, so no.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 April 2014 01:56:36AM 0 points [-]

If you are anomalous you would have to be anomalous in some way and then that way would be a law, so no.

Well, by 'anomalous' I just mean 'doesn't obey any law'. I think maybe this was a poor choice of words. At any rate, in the great grandparent you said

Yes, the natural doesn't obey any laws.

I'm not sure what you want to say now.

Comment author: Slider 03 April 2014 12:45:58PM 0 points [-]

This was to mean that laws obey the natural rather than the other way around in responce to >So, are you saying that the natural world (ourselves included) don't 'obey' any sort of law, but that natural law is just a more or less consistent generalization about what does happen?